Festivals and Films
Addis Ababa What's on
31 March-30 April 2006. Forty photographs by amateur photographers portraying rural life across the country. The exhibition is the result of a national competition Empowering Rural Livelihoods in Ethi...
Accra What's on
30 March-14 April 2006. Three young artists present works made out of plastic waste material to coincide with the Environmental Film Festival of Accra (30 March-7 April). The exhibition comprises Not...
Cape Town What's on
19-28 April 2006. In February 2006 seven Cape Town male prostitutes were each given an instant camera and told to take pictures of themselves and their environment. The results of this photographic wo...
Cape Town What's on
13 April-21 May 2006. Over 80 original works by Pablo Picasso go on show alongside 29 African sculptures in an exhibition exploring the influence of African art on the twentieth-century Spanish master...
Nairobi What's on
11 March-4 April 2006. Work by Sudanese artists Salah Ammar and Hassan Fadoul Abbakar is on show at the Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art (RaMoMa) gallery in Nairobi. Basing his work on nature, Khartoum...
Addis Ababa What's on
5-8 April 2006. Exhibition of work by Joseph Habte Mariam at the Hilton Hotel. Opening 5 April 18.30.
Cape Town What's on
8 March-9 Aug 2006. Over 100 bicycles, tricycles and pedal-powered machines trace the history of the bicycle and its multiple uses over time. Exhibits include a replica of the 1817 hobbyhorse, an orig...
Nairobi What's on
Recent work by Xavier Verhoest.
3 March-20 April 2006. Born in Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1964, Xavier Verhoest studied cinematography and editing in Belgium before joining Medecins Sans Frontires as a volun...
Maputo What's on
9-17 March 2006. Exhibition of photographs by award-winning South African photographer Peter McKenzie to mark the 25th anniversary of the Associao Moambicana de Fotografia (AMF). Mckenzie is the chief...
Accra What's on
Addressing social issues in art.
14-24 March 2006. Exhibition of work by Ghanaian painter, sculptor and poet Benedict Kojo Quaye. Quaye studied at the Ankle College of Art in Accra and uses his work to address social and political is...
Nairobi What's on
10-12 March 2006. Each year the Kenya Museum Society organises an art show and sale to highlight the diversity of Kenyan art and to raise funds for the National Museums of Kenya, the umbrella body for...
Addis Ababa What's on
Exhibition and conference for women's day.
9-23 March 2006. Group exhibition of work titled SHE I by women artists. On 9 March there will also be a conference on the condition of women in Ethiopia. Both events mark international women's day, w...
Maputo What's on
14-24 Feb 2006. Mozambican sculptor Titos Mabota and French artist Anne Laure Roy show their work in a joint exhibition at the Centro Cultural Franco-Moambicano (CCFM). Mabota is well-known both insid...
Cape Town What's on
9 Aug 2005-9 Aug 2006. The Bo-Kaap museum in the heart of Cape Towns Muslim quarter hosts an exhibition on the everyday lives of Muslim women living in the Cape. Out and About Muslim Women Today compr...
Addis Ababa What's on
Traditional and religious art.
8-25 February 2006. The Alliance thio-franaise hosts an exhibition of traditional and religious art by Tekeste Yibeyin. Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Axum in 1960, Yibeyin studied under the g...
Accra What's on
ArtHaus resident artist exhibition.
14 Feb-3 March 2006. Work by Ghanaian wood sculptor Ray-Claver Agbo is on display at the Goethe-Institut. Agbo completed his artistic studies in Lom, Togo, before returning to Ghana in 1994, where he...
Addis Ababa What's on
7 March 2006. Garments by young Ethiopian fashion designer Hanna Tsegaye go on show at the Alliance thio-franaise. Born in Addis Ababa 1981, Tsegaye presented her first show at the Sheraton Addis in M...
Nairobi What's on
28 Feb-31 March 2006. This exhibition and juried competition organised jointly by the Goethe-Institut and the Alliance Franaise showcases work by contemporary artists living in Kenya. Participating ar...
Cape Town What's on
24 Sept 2005-19 March 2006. Drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture documenting the vision and experience of South African artists during the colonial era, under apartheid and following the advent o...
Nairobi What's on
Two Ways - paintings by Meek Gichugu.
17 Jan-3 Feb 2006. Paintings by internationally acclaimed Ngecha artist Meek Gichugu are on display in the exhibition Two Ways in the gallery of the Alliance Franaise. Ngecha, a small rural village ab...
